Trinity prepares students for a starring role in understanding, creating, and managing these new and diverse modes of communication.
Why Study Media and Communication?
Study how media shapes public life while creating meaningful work across platforms. Gain hands-on experience from your first semester through KRTU, TigerTV, and the Trinitonian while learning from expert faculty.
Hands-On Media Experience
Students gain real-world experience from day one through campus media like KRTU, TigerTV, and the Trinitonian, and Mirage—developing skills in writing, broadcasting, production, and storytelling.
Creative and Analytical Learning
Courses combine media production with critical analysis, helping students understand how messages are created, interpreted, and shared across platforms.
Pathways to Industry
Internships, research, and mentorship connect students to careers in journalism, public relations, film, design, and strategic communication.
It’s a good fit for you if you:
- Enjoy expressing ideas clearly through writing, speaking, and digital media
- Are curious about how the media landscape shapes relationships, organizations, and society
- Like collaborating with others to produce media messages
- Want to develop skills in storytelling, persuasion, and strategic messaging
- Are interested in careers in media related to film, television, radio, podcasting, social media, design, journalism, advertising, public relations, etc.
The Media and Communication Major (B.A.)
The Media and Communication major prepares students to understand and manage media in a changing world. Students study journalism, advertising, public relations, film, design, media effects, law, and ethics, gaining experience through campus media, internships, and research.
In-Demand Skills
You’ll gain skills in:
- Writing and producing across multiple media platforms
- Media analysis, research, and critical interpretation
- Strategic and creative communication
Interdisciplinary Curriculum:
You’ll complete 32 credit hours through coursework that spans media industries, creative production, research, and communication practice.
The Media and Communication Minor
22 Credit Hours | 1.5 to 2 semesters of coursework
Strong communication skills expand your impact in any field.
The Media and Communication minor gives students from any major the opportunity to understand how messages are created, shared, and interpreted across media and audiences. Students explore areas such as media studies, strategic communication, journalism, and digital media while building skills in writing, analysis, and storytelling. You do not need to be a Media and Communication major to pursue this minor.
Communication pairs well with:
- Strategic Communication
- Film Studies,
- Human Communication
- Political Science
- English
- New Media
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Theatre
- Computer Science
"AI, Creativity and Communication"
Course Spotlight
In her class, “AI, Creativity and Communication,” Communication Professor Althea Delwiche, Ph.D., challenges students to grapple with the positives and negatives of the AI boom.
Program Highlights
Recent Graduate Careers
Graduates enter a changing media landscape with technical skills and problem-solving from liberal arts. Media and Communication majors become journalists, PR pros, advertisers, filmmakers, designers, corporate communicators, and business owners.
Graduate Schools or Programs:
- Art and Design Graduate Programs
- Savannah School of Art and Design
- Georgia Tech
- Communication Graduate Programs
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania State University
- Law Schools
- University of Texas - Austin
- Duke
- SMU
Notable Companies That Have Hired Trinity Graduates:
- Buzzfeed
- Electronic Arts
- NBC News
- New York Times
- Red Bull
- U.S. Olympic Committee
Career Areas:
- Corporate, Political, and Government Communication
- Film and Television
- Graphic and Web Design
- Law
- News
- Strategic Communication - PR and Advertising
Get Your Questions Answered
Students interested in the Media and Communication major or minor should:
Meet with an academic adviser to explore introductory courses in Media and Communication, review degree requirements in the course catalog, and contact the Department of Media and Communication with any advising questions.